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July 13, 2026

Finally Brethren

When I was concluding my first pastorate, my mother asked me, “What are you going to preach on your last Sunday?” Then she added, “Every preacher I ever heard stepping down from one pulpit and moving on to another preached, ‘Finally, brethren.’” So I looked it up. Paul said it more than once. “Finally, brethren…”…

Tongues of Fire – Pentecost

A WordPress Devotional for pastortom.blog “And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.”— Acts 2:3 Sometimes the word God has for someone else comes and sits on us first. We do not always know what to say. We do not always know how to say…

Back to Bethel

“And Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him, Bethel.”— Genesis 35:15 There are moments in life that become spiritual landmarks. Places where something changed.Where clarity appeared.Where we sensed that God was speaking into our lives. The Bible tells us that Jacob had such a place. He called it Bethel. The…